Wire-stretcher.



WIRE STRETCHER.

APPLICATION FILED PHIL-28. 1906.

No.. S24,12o. I BATBNTED JUNE 26, 1906.

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No. 824,126.l

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application filed :February y28, 19,06. Serial No. 303,436.

To all whom itI may con/cern:

Beit known that I, JESSE A. IIoYT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hastings, in the county of Mills, State of Iowa,

have invented certa'n new and useful Implrovements in Wire-Stretchers;and I do ereby declare the followin to be a full,

clear, and exact description o the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to :o which it appertainsto make and use the Same.

. This invention has relation to means for stretching wires, as is donein the work of constructing wire fences.`

It is the object of the invention to sim lify :r 5 the construction ofthe contrivances a ore- 1 said and at the same time enhance theirefficiency.

The invention embodies a pair ofv uprights provided with stay pins orpikes, bars conzo necting the uprights, and a stretching-frame movableupon said bars and connected with the fence-wires to tighten and holdthe same to-permit of their attachment by staples to the permanentfence-posts when the stretching device is run back to be again used asbeore.

The annexed drawings, with the iigures of reference marked thereon, forma part of this specification and are to be referred to as such.

3o Of the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the device inposition to operate upon the end of the fence-wires. Fig. 2 is a topplan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view showing thearrangement of the 3 5 tightening-lever and its nut.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts or features, asthe case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 1 1 designate two posts 4o or timbers forming the endsof the frame, which are provided on each end with pikes 2 2, adapted tobe driven into the ground to maintain the frame in vertical position.

3 designates a stay-rod provided with an E eye or loop 4 on one enddesigned to be placed over the pike in the upper. end of the timber 1opposite to ythat approached by the fencewires, and the other end ofsaid rod is led in the direction in which the fence is being built 5oand secured in the ground by a metallic stake 4 to stay the end timbers1 1 against movement toward the ends ofy the fence-wires ywhen thelatter are being tightened. 5 designates brace-rods connected at their 55 ends at the top and bottom of the end timbers to maintain the latterin place, said rods Y and end timbers constituting a practicallyrectangular frame. The rods 5 are furtherconnected by a transversebrace-rod 6.

7 designates a clamping-bar made in two parts held together by headedbolts and nuts (as many in number as may be required) arrangedvertically in the frame, with the rods 5 passing through its upper andlower ends, so that it can slide to and froon Said rods, as will beunderstood. The ends of the barbed or other wires forming the fence arepassed between the two parts of said bar and are clamped in placetherebetween by the abovementioned bolts and nuts.

Two clips 8 engage or surround the clampbar and are provided on theirinner sides with rings 9 or the like, from which extend in a convergingdirection two rods that are hooked at their other ends into openingsformed in .the wings of a nut 10, turning on one end of a rod 11,provided with right and left hand 1,

threads and arrangedV horizontally in the frame, the said rod havin alike -nut 10 turning on its other end, wit which converging rods similarto those before mentioned are connected, the opposite ends of the latterrods being secured to the end post l1. Inclined brace-rods 12 connectthe end post 1 with the upper and lower rods 5 to brace and stiffen theframe.

A nut 13 is iixedly secured to the center of the screw-rod 11 and isprovided on its periphery with notches 14, with which engages the freeend of a dog 15, pivoted on an operating-lever 16, fulcrumed on thescrew-rod 11, so that when the screw-rod is turned in one direction thenuts 10 and 10 will be moved toward each other, moving the clampbar 7inward, thus drawing on the wires and tightening the same, so that theycan be stapled .to the permanent end posts set in the ground to receivethe said staples and wires, thus forming a set-up fence. A movement ofthe operating-lever in the opposite direction will cause said nuts 10 10to move apart, thus permitting the clamp-bars to be released from thefastened wires and take up a new section, which may then be tightenedand fastened, as above explained.

The end timber 1 may be further supported by securing to the eye 17thereon one end of a brace, which is set into the round.

Should it be desired to use the frame on the other side of the line ofposts, it will be turned bottom side upward, when the pikes at the IOO'(not shown,) the other end of IIO top of the end timbers will be drivenin the ground and the stay-rod 3 changed accord-V ngly. The dog 15,ivoted on the lever 16, Wil engage the note es in the periphery of thenut 13, fixed on the screw-rod 11 and operate the said rod 11 to bringthe nuts 10 and 10 together when the frame is reversed in the samemanner as When the frame was in its rst-described position, the leverbeing depressed in its original position and raised When the frame isreversed.

It will thus be seen that the improved contrivance can be Worked equallyWell on either side of the line of posts and that in its operation itcan be made to tighten the fence or longitudinal fence-Wires as tight.or tense as may be Wanted.

1. A device for stretching fence-Wires, eonsisting of a frame havingvertical end posts, pikes in each end of the said posts to adapt saidposts to be secured in the ground in vertical position, and to renderthem reversible, rods connecting the up er `and lower ends of said osts,a vertical c amp-bar adapted to slide orizontallyon said rods, means foroperating the elamp-bar to engage the ends-of the fence-Wires, and meansfor actuating the clamp-bar to stretch the fence-Wires which it holds.

2. A device for stretching fence-wires, consisting of a frame havingvertical end posts, pikes in each-end of said posts to .adapt them to besecured in the ground in vertical position and to render themreversible, rods eonneeting the upper and lower ends of said posts, avertical two-part clamp-bar adapted to slide horizontally on said rods,means for operating'said clam -bar to engage the ends o the fence-wirest ierebetween, a rod eon- `neeted with said clamp-bar and provided withright and left hand screw-threaded ends, nuts engaging the threaded endsof said rod for travel thereon, a nut fixed on said rod, and a leverfulerumed on said rod and having a dog pivoted thereon to enga re saidiixed nut to turn the same and move t ie irst-lnen.- tioned nuts andclamp-bar.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JESSE A. I-IOYT.. Witnesses:

H. A. DUNBAR, J. M. ROBERTS.

